Cao Cao's arrival exacerbated the conflict in Yanzhou.

Zheng Ping had already deduced this situation and formulated corresponding countermeasures.

However, if you hit directly, you can't fight.

Whether it is Liu Bei's forces or Cao Cao's forces, they are nominally Liu Xie's courtiers and courtiers with real power.

If you can't be famous, you will be easily caught by the other party and persevere in righteousness.

Therefore, after Cao Cao came to Chenliu, he dismissed some officials in Chenliu County, Dong County, Jiyin County and Shanyang County on the grounds of investigating and punishing corruption, and appointed people from close friends to take charge of the four counties.

Quickly declare the sovereignty of the four counties!

Taishan County, Jibei Kingdom, Dongping Kingdom and Rencheng Kingdom had long been infiltrated by Zheng Ping, and the post supervisor sent by Cao Cao was directly tied up on the grounds of bullying the people.

Cao Cao was not angry either, and no longer sent the superintendent to it.

Yanzhou was divided into two, and both sides tacitly maintained a delicate balance.

Shou Zhang Cheng.

Zheng Ping drew a circle on the map of Yanzhou and instructed Zhang Fei: "Yide, divide a thousand sharp soldiers to Li Tong, go to Yanggu to Cangtingjin to station, and at the same time recruit people, and build a granary in the south of Yanggu City for military needs." ”

"There is no need to hide your whereabouts and purpose, just make a big fanfare, and if anyone asks, you will say that the king will send an edict to the Northern Expedition and build a granary here."

Faced with Zheng Ping's arrangement, Zhang Fei felt a burst of doubts: "Military advisor, shouldn't I go to fight Cao Cao?" Why do you want to go to Cangtingjin to garrison and build a warehouse? ”

"If Yuan Shao sends the generals south, how can I fight Cao Cao?"

Zheng Ping shook his head and chuckled: "Yide, Cao Cao is definitely going to fight, but what reason do you have to fight Cao Cao now?" No matter how many personal grievances there are, Cao Cao is still commonplace on the surface, not rebellious! ”

"Sending generals to attack the court is empty, isn't this kind of behavior a trap for the king to be unjust?"

"Even if you want to fight, you have to create a reason to fight Cao Cao."

"Our enemies are not only Cao Cao, but also Yuan Shao."

"Your Majesty has issued an edict to the envoy to order his northern expedition, and we have to pretend anyway."

Looking in the direction of Hebei, Zheng Ping's eyes had a little more sneer: "What's more, the sandpiper and the clam are fighting, the fisherman is profitable, and if I don't pull Yuan Shao into the water, I can't feel at ease." ”

Yuan Shao did not go south after destroying Gongsun Zhan, and his purpose of wanting to be a fisherman was obvious.

If you fight to the death with Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao suddenly goes south, it will be Cao Cao and Liu Bei who will suffer.

Zheng Ping would not be so stupid to let Yuan Shao benefit.

Since Cao Cao sent troops to Chen Liu, and stationed a large number of soldiers and horses in the four counties, wouldn't Zheng Ping take the opportunity to pull Yuan Shao into the water, wouldn't it be a waste of great opportunity?

Fighting Cao Cao is Zheng Ping's purpose.

Gathering the troops of the six states to expedition to the north against Yuan was also Zheng Ping's purpose.

There is no precedence of purpose, and whoever achieves the enforceable conditions first will be executed first.

If Cao Cao can really kill Yuan, Zheng Ping doesn't mind killing Yuan Shao first.

Cangtingjin garrisoned troops and built a granary in the south of Yanggu City, Zheng Ping not only blocked the news, but also made a big show for fear that no one would know, whether it was Cao Cao's spies or Yuan Shao's spies, they were easily detected.

"Liu Bei really wants to go on the Northern Expedition?"

This highly confusing deployment made Cao Cao a little stunned.

Everyone is here to fight for Yanzhou, and you suddenly went to the Northern Expedition?

Since the Northern Expedition is really going on, why use the excuse of "Qingzhou is short of grain" at the beginning?

"Perhaps, the excuse for Qingzhou's lack of food is not from Zheng Ping, but from the rest of Liu Bei's staff." Guo Jia asserted.

Cao Cao said in a condensed voice: "Can Feng Xiao guess Zheng Ping's intentions? ”

Guo Jia thought for a while: "Jia thinks that Liu Bei is subject to the namelessness of the teacher, after all, Chenliu County, Dong County, Jiyin County and Shanyang County have all been controlled by Ming Gong. ”

"If there is no proper reason, Liu Bei can't come to rob these four counties."

"In addition, Yuan Shao is eyeing the north and has to be on guard."

"Therefore, Jia concluded that Liu Bei wanted to pull Yuan Shao to also intervene in the Yanzhou dispute, and then seek profits."

"If it succeeds, then work with Ming Gong to rob Yuan Shao's city, and if things don't work, then take advantage of the situation to cut off Ming Gong's return road and rob the four counties of Yanzhou."

"Whether it works out or not, Liu Bei can get benefits."

Cao Cao snorted coldly: "Zheng Xianmou is still as insidious and cunning as ever, the defeat of Huainan will be deeply ashamed, Zheng Xianmou is still trying to repeat his old tricks?" ”

If it weren't for the fact that the gap with Yuan Shao's strength was too big, Cao Cao would have wanted to use Yuan Shao's hand to destroy Liu Bei's army.

"You have to defeat Yuan Shao a few times first, and then you can use the original soldiers and horses to destroy Liu Bei's soldiers."

"If Zheng Ping can also die at the hands of the original, Liu Bei will definitely hate Yuan Shao and desperately go on the Northern Expedition."

Cao Cao kept figuring out in his heart and gradually had a plan.

In Hebei, Liu Bei's information on the garrison of troops in Cangtingjin was also sent to Zhuocheng by 800 miles.

"Liu Bei will actually be edicted?"

Yuan Shao repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of the information, and his face was full of surprise.

In Yuan Shao's view, Liu Bei and himself are actually the same kind of people, ambitious and not pedantic.

Thinking about it from another perspective, if Yuan Shao was Liu Bei, he would definitely not be edicted in the face of Cao Cao's behavior of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

How can there be a reason for the weak to command the strong?

"No, that's not right!" Yuan Shao quickly reacted again: "If Liu Bei is sincere in obeying the edict, how can he garrison and build a warehouse with great fanfare." ”

"The soldiers are very fast, when he fought Nanpi City, Liu Bei didn't hesitate so much."

"Liu Bei did it on purpose, this is to lure me into sending troops!"

Although he guessed the purpose of Liu Bei's garrison, Yuan Shao still hesitated in his heart.

If you ignore it, if Liu Bei crosses the Yellow River directly, wouldn't he have to deal with it in a hurry?

In the face of Yuan Shao's confusion, Xu You insisted on the previous strategy, ordering Yuan Shao to solve the Montenegrin Army first, and then seize Sizhou.

"Duke Ming, if Liu Bei really wants to go on the Northern Expedition, wouldn't it be better to go directly to the Northern Expedition of Nanpi City?"

"If you want to fight Qinghe County and Wei County, you can go directly to the east of the Plains Country, why bother to garrison troops in Cangtingjin to build a warehouse? Isn't that redundant? ”

"I think that Liu Bei's purpose is still Yanzhou and Cao Cao, and the garrison is just an illusion, at most he pretends to send troops to attack!"

"If the Duke of Ming sends troops, Liu Bei and Cao Cao will inevitably join hands; On the contrary, the Ming Duke stubbornly defended the pass of Jinkou City, even if Liu Bei and Cao Cao really went on a northern expedition, they would not get any benefits, and when the morale of their northern expedition subsided, they would inevitably fight again. ”

Xu You's analysis is based on Yuan Shao's current situation, and the most prudent way to deal with it.

Even if Feng Ji wanted to refute, he didn't dare to speak.

Rebuttal means that Feng Ji supports sending troops.

However, even Feng Ji was not confident that he could win by sending troops.

If this fails, wouldn't it give Xu Yu another reason to frame.

At that time, Xu You will inevitably say, "Sure enough, Feng Ji fornicated with Liu Bei, otherwise how could he insist on persuading Ming Gong to send troops, and then deliberately lose to Liu Bei", if this is the case, Feng Ji's head will have to move.

When it comes to military struggle, it is natural to wait for the opportunity to come out and fall into the well.

Feng Ji glanced at Xu Yu coldly and remained silent.

Yuan Shao saw that he didn't say anything against the discipline trial, and his heart was suddenly relieved.

If there is no objection, it means that Xu You's analysis is correct!

"Then according to Ziyuan's plan, order the counties to strictly guard the pass and Jinkou City, and not fight easily!" Yuan Shao made a final decision and set a countermeasure.

Although Yuan Shao did not move, the granary of Cangtingjin was still built as scheduled, and the grain and grass of Dongpingguo, Jibeiguo, Renchengguo and Taishan County were also transported to the granary one after another.

Zheng Ping named the place where the warehouse was built as Cangshang.

Meanwhile.

In addition to the Fei military camp that fought with Yuan Tan in Liaodong, and the broken military camp stationed in Nanpi, the soldiers and horses of the Ruishi Battalion, the White Robe Battalion, the Xiandeng Battalion, the Bai Yu Battalion, and the Euphorbia Battalion were also rushing to Dongping Country one after another.

Guan Yu, who was originally hiding in Taishan County to sneak attack Lu Bu, also showed his flag.

In less than a month, nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses of the fifth battalion arrived one after another.

Even Liu Bei came to Cangting Jinshou Zhangcheng!

Similarly, Zheng Ping changed the basic common sense that attacking the city and the pond needed to hide and hide, and directly asked Liu Bei to take the stage in Shouzhang City to sue heaven and earth, and counted Yuan Shao's twenty crimes.

Compared with Zang Hong's generous statement in the past on the fight against Dong Allied Army, Liu Bei's oath is more heroic.

There is a momentum of "Yuan Shao will never retreat south if he does not break it"!

Subsequently, Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei and Guan Yu as the vanguard, and each led the troops and horses of his headquarters to attack the Qinghe Kingdom.

However, in ten days, more than ten cities in the Qinghe country were connected.

The battle report for help drifted towards Zhuocheng like snowflakes.

"Xu Ziyuan, didn't you conclude that Liu Bei was just pretending to send troops? In the middle of ten days, the Qinghe Kingdom has lost more than ten cities, which is still called pretending to send troops? Yuan Shao took the case, and his anger could not be hidden.

Xu You was also a little confused.

In the middle of ten days, Qinghe lost more than ten cities?

This offensive, does Liu Bei really want to go on the Northern Expedition?

Although Yuan Shao's main army was not in Qinghe Country, there were still many soldiers and horses stationed in the cities of Qinghe Kingdom.

Xu You concluded that Liu Bei didn't really want to go on a northern expedition, and it was no big problem to defend the city with the soldiers and horses left in the Jinkou cities of various passes in the Qinghe Kingdom.

However, now, Liu Bei has broken more than ten cities in ten days, and if Liu Bei is pretending to be on the Northern Expedition, the angry Yuan Shao is estimated to be able to cut Xu You.

"It shouldn't be."

"Isn't Liu Bei worried that Cao Cao will be bad?"

"Is there really no selfishness at all?"

Xu You didn't believe that Liu Bei would be pedantic and thought that Cao Cao was a good person.

Before Xu You could come up with a way to deal with it, another urgent report came.

"Report! Lu Bu crossed the river the day before yesterday, all the way was like a bamboo, the soldiers and horses had arrived in Yecheng, Wei County was too guarded by Li Pan, please Yuan Gong quickly send troops! ”

Yuan Shao sat up in shock, and then sprinkled his anger on Xu You: "Xu Ziyuan, you will be a big deal!" ”

Liu Bei attacked Qinghe State, Cao Cao attacked Wei County, if this is a fake Northern Expedition, then what is a real Northern Expedition?

Xu You was stunned, and "impossible" kept flashing in his mind, "How is this possible?" "How could Cao Apo form an alliance with Liu Bei?"

Regarding Cao Cao's personality, Xu Yu is too clear.

If Cao Cao will truly ally with Liu Bei, it means that the sun will come out from the west.

"What the hell is Cao Apu thinking?"

"How could he have thought of going on a northern expedition with Liu Bei?"

"If the Northern Expedition is successful, Liu Bei will inevitably lean towards the government and the opposition, and Cao Apo can only succumb to Liu Bei."

While Xu You was meditating, Feng Ji finally found an opportunity and said: "Ming Gong, Ji has evidence that Xu Ziyuan has fornicated with Liu Bei!" ”

These words woke up Xu You, who was thinking on the spot, and when he saw Feng Ji framing himself here, Xu You couldn't help but be furious: "Feng Yuantu, what are you crazy about!" ”

Yuan Shao was also puzzled: "Yuan Tu, why do you say that Ziyuan fornicated with Liu Bei?" ”

Regarding Xu You's personality, Yuan Shao thinks he still understands.

said that Xu You fornicated with Cao Cao, Yuan Shao may hesitate, and said that Xu You fornicated with Liu Bei, Yuan Shao was really surprised.

Feng Ji sneered: "Xu You has a nephew, Xu Yi, who has always been in contact with Xu Ping, a salt merchant in Qingzhou. Xu Ping would give Xu Yi a boatload of salt every time. ”

"And Xu Yi is a horse dealer who will introduce Xu Ping to sell horses."

"Ji already has conclusive evidence, and every month Xu Ping will buy two hundred good horses from the horse dealers in Youzhou and return to Qingzhou."

"Ji has found out that the horse trade started in July last year, and now it is October, and within 16 months, Xu Ping has transported more than 3,000 good horses to Qingzhou under the cover of Xu Yi."

"That Xu Ping is a salt merchant in Qingzhou, and he has more than 3,000 good horses, and he will inevitably resell them to Liu Bei."

"Selling horses into Qingzhou, isn't it fornicating with Liu Bei?"

"More than 3,000 good horses, Liu Bei already lacked cavalry, but now he has more than 3,000 good horses, which is enough to form an elite cavalry!"

The number of more than 3,000 good horses is watery, so many good horses, let alone Xu Yi, even Xu You doesn't dare!

However, the main hit of Feng Ji is an exaggeration.

After getting rid of Xu You, Feng Ji can rest assured that he will be able to command the troops.

Although Wei County and Qinghe Kingdom are in a hurry, as long as the army arrives, the lost city can be easily recovered.

But there aren't many opportunities to frame up Xu Yu!

Xu You knew that Xu Yi introduced horse merchants to Xu Ping, but with Xu You's character, even if he wanted to make this money, he would restrict the sale of good horses, or directly use shoddy ones.

However, Feng Ji's words were so convincing, which made Xu You suspicious.

"Yi'er didn't break my rules, really give Xu Ping a good horse?"

"No, it's impossible, Yi'er has always been steady, and she won't be so ignorant, at most it's a good horse written in the account book, and then give Xu Ping a bad horse."

Looking at Feng Ji's smug eyes, Xu You subconsciously clenched his fists.

But at this time, Yuan Shao obviously believed Feng Ji's words, and angrily reprimanded Xu You: "Xu Ziyuan, do you really dare to traffic good horses to Qingzhou?" ”

Xu You was suddenly in a dilemma.

Since Feng Ji chose this time to speak, it will not be groundless, and he must have obtained relevant evidence.

If this is directly said no, when Feng Ji comes up with evidence, Yuan Shao will be even more angry.

But if you want to say that there is, wouldn't you take the initiative to give Fengji a handle?

Seeing that Yuan Shao was getting more and more angry, Xu You gritted his teeth, was ruthless, and glared at Feng Ji angrily: "Feng Yuantu, you are bad for Ming Gong's plan!" ”

"Exchanging inferior horses for refined salt can not only allow the people of Youzhou to have good refined salt to eat, but also allow Liu Bei to spend a lot of money and grain to form a cavalry with inferior horses."

"Inferior horse cavalry, how can you resist the tiger and wolf cavalry of Ming Gong?"

"This is a tired enemy plan dedicated to Ming Gong, and you want to frame me with this matter?"

"Feng Ji, could it be that Zheng Xian saw through the enemy's tired plan, so he asked you to frame me, and then you can be responsible for docking with Xu Ping and selling good horses to Xu Ping?"

"Guo Tu is right, Feng Ji, you really fornicated with Liu Bei!"

Xu Yu perfectly interpreted what it means to call a thief to catch a thief, and this burst of angry rebuke directly turned Fengji's framing into a framing between the two sides.

You say that I fornicated with Liu Bei to sell good horses?

I said that you fornicated with Liu Bei and ruined my enemy's plan!

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